| p's and q's | |
| —pl n | |
| behaviour within social conventions; manners (esp in the phrase to mind one's p's and q's) | |
| [altered from p(lea)se and (than)k-you's] | |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |